Big Lake’s Maring Buser is the second musher into Galena. He is the first musher who has completed his 24 hr and 8 hr layover requirements at this point. Time will tell how far he will go, if he elects to ” camp out ” on bishop rock or even try to go all the way to Nulato. Daytime hour wise, it might be got to shut it down before Nulato, as once the sun is up in full force, the dogs will slow down. At this point the often notoriously windy Yukon River is behaving and the forecast looks good for the next couple of days.
Martin was bundled up big time, its gotten colder on the river, about 20 below F now. Here some pictures from a few miles out,
